Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

1 ST MARY'S PLACE AND 31 DRUMLANRIG SQUARELB34616

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
19/08/1977
Local Authority
Scottish Borders
Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Burgh
Hawick
NGR
NT 50122 14332
Coordinates
350122, 614332

Description

James Pearson Alison, 1891. 3-storey, roughly 3-bay, rectangular-plan, gabled block on sloping site comprising commercial premises at ground floor and residential accommodation above, with chamfered window margins, ball finials to skewputts, and scroll-ended skews. Stugged yellow sandstone ashlar with polished margins. Moulded eaves course.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: Shop at ground to right of NW (Drumlanrig Square) elevation with roll-moulded margins and fascia cornice; regular fenestration arranged in 3 bays to rest of elevation, with central bipartite at 1st floor. 3-storey and attic, 2-bay SW (Kirk Wynd) elevation with plate-glass shop window to left and round-chamfered angles at ground floor; central attic window in gable. Roughly 2-storey and attic SE (St Mary's Place) elevation with architraved doorway and finialled dormer gable to centre and 2 further irregularly-placed windows; 20th-century dormers to left and right.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash-and-case windows. Coped skews. Coped ashlar gablehead stack to SW elevation; ashlar-coped brick stack to NE gable; buff clay cans. Grey slate roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods with some decorative hoppers.

INTERIOR: Some panelling and cornicing to shop. Some cornicing, timber window shutters and timber-panelled doors to upper accommodation.

Statement of Special Interest

Prominently situated at the north-eastern corner of Drumlanrig Square, at the intersection of Needle Street, St Mary's Place and Kirk Wynd. A good late-19th-century terminal block, with a strong vertical profile and secondary (St Mary's Place) elevation, some fine detailing, and unusual plan form, designed by James Pearson Alison (1862-1932), Hawick's most prominent architect.

Alison commenced practice in the town in 1888 and remained there until his death, during which period he was responsible for a large number of buildings of widely varying types and styles, including a considerable proportion of Hawick's listed structures. Plans by Alison for this building, dated 25 February 1891, are in the possession of Alison's successor firm Aitken & Turnbull, and copies are held by the owners of the house (2007). They indicate that the property was built for a Miss Lamb.

The plan is well adapted to the site. The ground in St Mary's Place is higher than that in Needle Street, and the central door in the secondary (St Mary's Place) elevation leads directly onto a staircase to the upper accommodation. In this way the stair windows above the door reinforce the impression of the block as a 3-storey building from all angles.

Earlier maps show a building with an identical footprint, but due to the date of the plans it must be assumed that it was not until the 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey map that this building was shown. List description revised following resurvey (2008).

References

Bibliography

Shown on 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey map (1897). Copies of drawings held by owners (2007).

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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